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What is ELN Software?
Electronic lab notebook (ELN) software provides researchers with the tools to optimize data collection and storage, transcription processes, information placement, and analysis operations. Compare and read user reviews of the best ELN software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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SciSure
SciSure
SciSure's ELN gives researchers a digital space to document experiments, protocols, and results in a structured, searchable format. It replaces paper notebooks and scattered files with a single system that supports reproducibility and easier collaboration across teams. Records stay organized and accessible, making it simpler to reference past work, share findings, and maintain consistent documentation standards across a lab or organization. -
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Lockbox LIMS
Third Wave Analytics
A sample tracking, test result capture, and inventory management cloud LIMS for life science research, biotech/NGS, and industrial QC labs. Includes regulatory support for CLIA, HIPAA, Part 11, and ISO 17025. Nothing is more critical to a lab’s success than the quality, security, and traceability of samples. The Lockbox LIMS system provides robust sample management functionality to laboratory professionals, giving them full visibility on every aspect of a sample’s journey, from accessioning to long-term storage. LIMS analysis is about more than just tracking results- Lockbox’s multi-layered sample storage and location management functionality allows you to define your lab’s storage framework using a variety of location options: rooms, storage units, shelves, racks, boxes, and positions.Starting Price: $175/user/month -
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SciCord
SciCord
The SciCord Solution feature set is designed to quickly propel your organization into the digital age. SciCord ELN/LIMS is designed for laboratory and manufacture compliance. Improve your compliance using validated formulas to eliminate calculation errors. Defined lists to assure adherence to SOPs. Automatic entry verification to flag potential Out-Of-Specification situations. Restrictions to avoid use of expired solutions or assure use of equipment by trained individuals. Intelligent scans alert reviewers of potential issues with precision, unstable balance, uncalibrated equipment, un-validated process. Fully compliant with CFR 21 Part11 including electronic signatures and audit trails. Custom parsing on attached files extracts data from instrument files and records the data in SciCord experiments for additional calculations, statistical analysis, and/or summarization.Starting Price: $220/user/month -
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WeLIMS
WeLIMS
WeLIMS is the LIMS for small companies. Small companies might not have the budget for a LIMS but they still need to be organized and efficient in the Quality Control area. WeLIMS is a simple and efficient LIMS or Quality Control software. WeLIMS contains all you need to get started right now! Methods Management, Product Management, and Quality Control. You can say goodbye to your Notebooks and Excel spreadsheets! WeLIMS will take care of maintaining your product data and your QC data safely! With WeLIMS you can set the right level of authorization in your organization. Predefined roles for Product specifications management, Recipes management or Quality Control are already set up. Workflows make everyone collaborate efficiently and seamlessly.Starting Price: $30/month/user -
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Sapio Sciences
Sapio Sciences
Sapio Sciences delivers the Sapio Platform, an agentic AI lab informatics platform that makes life in the lab easier and more productive for scientists. The unified, configurable, low code and scalable environment brings together Sapio LIMS, the market’s most advanced and flexible LIMS for automating research, diagnostics and manufacturing, Sapio ELaiN, the third generation AI lab notebook and scientific co scientist, and Sapio Scientific Data Cloud, the scientific data unification solution with built in organization, search, charting, tools and AI. Biopharma R&D, biotech, CRO and clinical diagnostics organizations use Sapio to run complex workflows and keep samples, experiments and data connected in one place instead of juggling disconnected systems. -
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Labguru
Cenevo
Labguru is a secure, cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), LIMS and informatics platform which offers a complete solution for life science research and industry. It records and manages laboratory data and inventory, includes molecular biology tools and chemistry tools, enables automation of the lab, insight into lab data making labs run more efficiently. With Labguru, scientists can design experiments and workflows, capture structured and unstructured data, manage projects, and share their work. Customizable experiment templates, integration of protocols, SOPs, and other cutting-edge features help to increase data quality, streamline workflows and reduce costs. Labguru is available on desktops and mobile devices via the cloud. Labguru is part of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and serves over 100,000 scientists worldwide from startups, universities, research institutes up to some of the largest pharma companies. -
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LIMSey
LIMSey
LIMSey is a cloud-based laboratory information management system (LIMS) built for engineering and manufacturing test labs. Unlike clinical or pharmaceutical LIMS adapted for other uses, LIMSey is purpose-built for physical testing. Features include test request intake, job and sample tracking, automated resource scheduling, equipment and calibration management, training records, chain of custody, barcode labeling, and template-driven test reports in PDF or Excel. The AutoScheduler assigns qualified technicians and instruments to each task, then reschedules automatically when priorities or availability change. Dashboards track turnaround time, throughput, and equipment utilization. Supports ISO 17025 accreditation with a full audit trail, document control, and calibration traceability. Includes REST API, SSO, role-based permissions, and daily backups. All features included in one per-user price. No modules to buy, nothing to install. -
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SciNote
SciNote
SciNote is a cloud-based electronic lab notebook (ELN) with built-in inventory, compliance, & team management tools. It is trusted by the FDA, USDA, European Commission, and 100K+ scientists in over 100 countries. Each premium plan comes with top-rated customer support, and a customer success manager who will work closely with you to ensure successful onboarding and implementation. SciNote provides a top-rated set of data management functionalities, such as inventory tracking & management, protocol & SOP management, compliance (CFR 21 part 11 & GxP), team management & collaboration, integrations and API, project management, safety & security of data and more. SciNote is based in Middleton, WI, USA, with offices in Europe. -
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FindMolecule
FindMolecule
FindMolecule is an innovative online inventory and ELN platform for chemists and biologists. It is used in labs all around the world to improve their efficiency. Great for structure searches, barcode scanning, health & safety, orders management and much more. The electronic lab notebook is the most intuitive on the market. Our inventory management software and our ELN are very intuitive. FindMolecule is built to satisfy the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. Link your inventory to your electronic lab notebook in one click! Use our innovative drawing application to search your products by structure. No more excel files is requiered! Reduce errors and eliminate waste time of manual recordkeeping using barcodes. Use our chemical inventory management system and facilitate your work with our advanced features: the multiscan module, the structure and substructure search, the “Order” section including an impressive database. -
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GenoFAB
GenoFAB
Simplify your data collection processes by standardizing your operations. Integrate manual laboratory processes and computer-controlled instruments. Remove frictions in collaborations by giving your collaborators and services providers the data they need to do their job. Improve the reproducibility of your processes through standardization. Measure process reproducibility by comparing multiple repetitions of the exact same operations. Increase the statistical power of your experiments by producing more data points and reducing experimental errors. Increased statistical power is the difference between strong scientific results and anecdotal observations. Strong scientific results lead to stronger patent applications, higher impact publications, and accelerated development of better-performing products. Use the lab's dashboard to keep track of the work in process, the to-do list, and the list of backlogged requests.Starting Price: $2,995 one-time payment -
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Scilligence ELN
Scilligence
Scilligence ELN is a unified informatics platform that supports R&D effort across all scientific branches focusing on small molecules, mRNA, ADCs, DEL, and more. Our ELN provides an elegant solution to macromolecule work by leveraging the most advanced HELM implementations. With its purposeful design the Scilligence ELN is a platform that will help your lab elevate internal and external collaborative processes. Major Features • Large selection of user-vetted experiment templates • Proprietary indexing capabilities enable structure, HELM, and biosequence queries • Seamless integration with registration, inventory, and assay data warehouse • Proprietary informatics engine enables advanced HELM functionality and enhanced stereochemistry • Auto-extract information from flat files via our Data Reader technology for efficient data capturing and processing -
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LabCollector LIMS/ELN
AgileBio
AgileBio develops and markets the innovative and flexible LIMS solution "LabCollector". Over the past 24 years, AgileBio has continued to develop LabCollector as an innovative solution to provide collaboration and processing tools that improve laboratory productivity and traceability. AgileBio combines the skills of laboratory experts (with PhDs) and software developers to continually bring new features in close dialogue with laboratory expectations. AgileBio has served over 1200 labs worldwide. We propose IT solutions and hardware (scanners, labels, printers, etc.) for labs in R&D, clinical trials, analytical, medical, quality control, GxP, and for various industries (biotech, pharma, food and beverage, etc.). LabCollector is an all-in-one flexible and intuitive LIMS/LIS/ELN software, built to organize, centralize and track reagents, samples, tests, experiments, workflows, lab data and processes, with full ISO/FDA compliance.Starting Price: 400€/user/year -
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Xybion LIMS
Xybion
Xybion LIMS (formerly Labwise XD) is an all-inclusive LIMS, ELN, QMS, and DMS. Xybion LIMS drives lab workflows, instills consistency, improves data quality, and supports regulatory compliance with a complete laboratory management solution that connects with your operating systems with powerful laboratory information management and analytics. Xybion LIMS creates optimized workflows for the unique business needs of all regulated laboratories including research, diagnostics, quality control, stability studies, and more. -
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Labii ELN & LIMS
Labii
User-friendly, fully customizable Electronic Lab Notebook and Laboratory Information Management System. Adding a record of your work is as simple as completing a form. The form fields are fully customizable. A record consists of multiple sections. Complete the details of each section by typing or uploading your own files. Once records are added, they can be managed in the list view. Labii provides several default features to help you document, manage, and interpret your data. External data can be imported into Labii. Labii supports *.tsv, *.xlsx files. Labii does not have any request on the number of columns. You will have options to match the headers with fields in Labii. Please use the first row as headers. We received a lot of requests to create all different kinds of exports, and here is the updated version.Starting Price: $10 per 100G per month -
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RSpace
RSpace
Researchers need tools that enable effective capture, management and sharing of research data. These tools, moreover, must integrate with data storage platforms/applications, other research tools, from enterprise chat to domain-specific tools like protocols.io, and data repositories. RSpace, the Connected electronic notebook, is the only ELN designed to fit seamlessly into the research data infrastructure at modern research-driven universities. As an early stage biotech you need to make rapid progress towards your next milestone. You also need to capture and organize your research data to lay the foundation for longer term IP protection and effective presentation of results to collaborators and investors. RSpace connects with research tools and with other components of the research infrastructure, to ensure the data that researchers produce is not only captured, but also properly managed and eventually made publicly available for others to view, query and re-use.Starting Price: $120 per user per year -
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LabCloud
LabCloud
LabCloud™ is dramatically changing the world of lab informatics. Integration is fundamental to a successful operation and effective research. LabCloud™ provides a fully integrated platform that allows R&D organizations to better manage research pipelines. Drive innovation while reducing operational expenditures, increasing laboratory compliance, and improving transparency. LabCloud’s Lab Notebook provides scientists with state-of-the-art tools in order to manage all of your information in one place. Full inventory management, item & instrument management, linked to Lab Notebook. Access to dozens of vendors, links directly to inventory, process orders and invoices, plus export to your accounting system. Access your data in a safe and compliant environment. LabCloud's unique software platform allows unparalleled control over data traditionally residing in isolated data silos. Having precise data control enables informed decision-making while ensuring compliance with industry standards.Starting Price: $7,500 per year -
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Ansys Cloud Direct
Ansys
Access Ansys Cloud Direct anywhere, anytime to obtain endless simulation capabilities compatible with most Ansys solvers. Engineering simulation has long been constrained by fixed computing resources available on a desktop or cluster. Ansys Cloud provides access to on-demand, cloud-based computing resources, including both interactive workstations and HPC clusters, for faster, high-fidelity results offering greater performance insight. Ansys Cloud increases simulation throughput by removing the hardware barrier. Ansys Cloud Direct is a scalable and cost-effective approach to HPC in the cloud. To leverage the combined benefits of cloud computing and best-in-class engineering simulation, Ansys partnered with Microsoft® Azure™ to create a secure cloud solution. Within Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent, Ansys Electronics Desktop, Ansys SPEOS, Ansys Discovery, Ansys LS-Dyna, Ansys LST, Ansys CFX and Ansys Lumerical, you can easily access HPC in the cloud directly from the applications -
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IGOR
IGOR
IGOR is a secure, cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)+LIMS platform. It consolidates your research data into a single, searchable location to improve efficiency, ensure data integrity, & enhance accessibility. IGOR features an ELN with integrated digital signatures for review & approval workflows. It standardizes documentation processes, offers comprehensive file & SOP management, & customizable templates, making research documentation well-organized & efficient. IGOR’s inventory can track all your inventory items, including their usage in experiments, relationships to other samples, & storage locations. An integrated mobile app allows users to capture observations or scan hand-written notes for upload to ELN entries. The IGOR workspace is optimized for fast & easy setup, with a user-friendly, ready-to-use framework, customizable to each lab’s workflows. Custom user roles & permissions facilitate secure data sharing & collaboration between internal teams & external partners.Starting Price: $30/user/month -
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L7|ESP
L7 Informatics
L7 Enterprise Science Platform (L7|ESP®) is a unified platform that contextualizes data and eliminates business silos via process orchestration. It's a comprehensive solution that facilitates the digitalization of data and scientific processes in life sciences organizations. L7|ESP has native applications, including L7 LIMS, L7 Notebooks, L7 MES, L7 Scheduling, and more. It can integrate with existing third-party applications, lab instruments, and devices to capture all data in a single data model. It has a low-code/no-code workflow designer and hundreds of pre-built connectors to enable rapid time-to-value and end-to-end automation. By leveraging a single data model, L7|ESP enables advanced bioinformatics, AI, and ML to offer novel scientific and operational insights. L7|ESP addresses data and lab management needs in life sciences, particularly in: ● Research and Diagnostics ● Pharma and CDMO ● Clinical Sample Management Resource Center: l7informatics dot com/resource-center -
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Synthace
Synthace
The Synthace digital experiment platform lets you design powerful experiments, run them in your lab, then automatically build structured data. Synthace DOE is an adaptive design of experiments solution that makes sophisticated, multifactor experiments available to anyone–all defined, executed, and analyzed in one place. High throughput DOE automation and data isn't a pipe dream, it's already here. Unleash your equipment to work full pelt on the hardest problems you need to solve today, tomorrow, and every other day after that. Run V1 in the morning, then V2 after lunch. With Synthace's dynamic automation, you can update your experiments as often as you like, without (re)writing code: run your experiments this way, then that way, then back again. Act on your decisions with lightning speed. Automatically gather and structure your experiment designs, experimental data, and metadata, all in one platform. -
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Sapio ELN
Sapio Sciences
Sapio ELN is an electronic lab notebook that flexes to the needs of every scientific experiment by combining a built-in AI assistant, science-aware tools, no-code configurability, and powerful data integration and visualization into one unified platform. Its ELaiN chat assistant lets scientists create and configure experiments, manage consumables, integrate and query data, visualize results, optimize DNA sequences, and even generate custom code, all via natural-language conversation. The ELN includes an advanced molecular biology toolkit (CRISPR design, plasmid and compound design, PCR primer design, vector modification, genome browser), reusable experiment templates, free-form note taking, instrument integrations, real-time collaboration, and built-in statistical calculations. Science-aware searching lets users find structured and unstructured data, including substructure and similarity compound queries, and instantly generate interactive, scientific visualizations without SQL. -
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TrueMed LIS
TrueMed LIS
TrueMedLIS is a cloud-native laboratory information management and CRM platform designed to power and automate the full spectrum of laboratory operations, from sample intake and test processing to analytics and reporting, with broad support across infectious disease, COVID-19, cancer genomics, pharmacogenomics (PGx), toxicology, hematology, and other specialized lab domains. It aims to replace manual processes like paper faxes and disparate systems by providing digital order management, physician and patient portals, and dedicated interfaces for sales and lab administrators that enhance efficiency and reduce data entry errors. It integrates with existing systems, including billing services and pharmacy benefits management software, offers real-time analytics and customizable reporting in formats like Excel and CSV, and prioritizes robust security and 24/7 support. -
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Labfolder
Labfolder
Drag & Drop all file formats into your electronic notebook and have your results side by side with your experimental procedure. Access your data anywhere in the world and download it from any computer. Import, preview, and extract Word and Excel files in Labfolder’s ELN. Work on these documents inside Labfolder while always keeping a copy of the original file. View images inside your lab notebook and take advantage of a vast array of annotation tools to always highlight what you want. Your annotations are stored on a separate layer, guaranteeing that your original image is always preserved. Your content does not need to be static once you create it. Drag and drop different elements within your entry to rearrange the layout. Labfolder is a browser-based ELN software and therefore compatible with all operating systems and most popular browsers. Access your data anywhere in the world and always be up to date with the latest developments of your research. -
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STARLIMS
STARLIMS
We simplify the complexity of your entire product lifecycle management process. Easy-to-use and adaptable to your organization’s needs, the STARLIMS brand of lab informatics solutions support the rapidly changing data management needs across your organization. Our laboratory information management solutions (LIMS software) can integrate with your current systems, while also identifying opportunities to improve processes so you can bring high quality and safe products to market faster. -
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CDD Vault
Collaborative Drug Discovery
With CDD Vault, you can intuitively organize chemical structures and biological study data, and collaborate with internal or external partners through an easy to use web interface. Start your free trial and see first hand how easy it is to manage drug discovery data. Tailored for you Affordable Scales with your project team(s) Activity & Registration * Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) * Visualization * Inventory * APIs * Secure Online Hosting -
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Uncountable
Uncountable
Uncountable helps R&D scientists move from isolated spreadsheets and projects to a comprehensive data management system the whole team can work in. Boasting the latest predictive technology and built on secure, cloud-based infrastructure, the vendor states users can develop innovative products without the hurdles and inefficiencies of yesterday. The Uncountable Platform is an enterprise solution to experiment and lab management. Combining ELN and LIMS functionality, R&D teams can manage their entire lab from within the Uncountable Platform. -
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StackWave
StackWave
StackWave's Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), and Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) are modern, flexible, and innovative software solutions that will increase the overall efficiency of your laboratory. Let the team at StackWave help you automate all of your tedious scientific processes so your team can focus on what really matters. StackWave's laboratory software is the perfect fit for labs in any industry and of any size. Our solutions support a diverse range of processes. We've worked with teams at fledgling biotechs, large pharmaceutical companies, and everything in between. Leveraging the latest in web, database, and software technologies, the StackWave LIMS is the most modern laboratory information management system available. Built on StackWave’s proven software infrastructure, the StackWave LIMS provides the flexibility, reliability, and performance to meet your most demanding information management challenges. -
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Arxspan
Arxspan
Arxspan's Electronic Lab Notebook is a fully integrated cloud platform for scientific data management that combines chemistry and biology data in one system. It is perfectly designed to enhance collaborative research across internal teams & external partners. Support for chemistry and biology experiments and workflows in single cloud ELN. Keyword, advanced, and chemical searching. Attachment and in-line editing for all Microsoft Office, image, and instrument files. Deployment in the private, secure Arxspan Cloud environment eliminates costly hardware acquisition, maintenance and IT overhead. Out of box integration with legacy electronic laboratory notebook systems. View and/or write sharing capabilities at notebook and project level. Configurable user role and permission hierarchies. Experiment signing and witnessing workflows. SAFE BioPharma compatibility for multi-factor capabilities. Support for validation of system and system updates. -
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IDBS E-WorkBook
IDBS
IDBS E-WorkBook is the world’s best-in-class informatics platform for scientific research and discovery. Its flexibility can meet the demands of your industry and those of various business units in your organization today, and can rapidly adapt and scale to meet whatever requirements you may have tomorrow. ELN, LIMS and other legacy software have played an important role in many research projects but their limitations hamper data visibility, obstructs collaboration which hinders further innovations and progress. Combining the very best functionalities of lab-based informatics E-WorkBook goes beyond traditional lab management software, providing cutting-edge data capture and analysis tools, job requesting and management, inventory management, and biology and chemistry functionality. E-WorkBook captures all the information scientists generate and stores it in the cloud. Any system or database used in a lab can be seamlessly ‘plugged in’ or integrated. -
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IDBS Polar
IDBS
Meet IDBS Polar, the world’s first BioPharma Lifecycle Management (BPLM) platform, eliminating repetitive manual tasks, allowing you to efficiently execute your processes while curating the data you need to accelerate time to market by tackling the biggest challenges in process design, optimization, scale-up, and technology transfer. Interactive data analytics applications, such as bioreactor comparison designed specifically for biopharma development scientists. IDBS Polar is a platform that securely manages drug progression in contexts of workflow, integration, and insight. Workflows designed to simplify the BioPharma Lifecycle with process-aware planning, design, and execution of end-to-end bioprocess and analytical unit operations. Integrations that bring meaning to your data. Rapid integration into your development ecosystem, enabling automation and curating a process-centric data backbone.
